Speed of sound imaging: improved image quality in breast sonography.

Speed of sound imaging: improved image quality in breast sonography.

Barr Richard G; Rim Alice; Graham Ruffin; Berg Wendie; Grajo Joseph R

Ultrasound quarterly

2009

2009-09

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate blindly breast ultrasound images corrected for the speed of sound in breast tissue compared with conventional images. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, 409 images from 153 patients were obtained on an Antares Ultrasound system. The system was modified to process the radiofrequency data with the standard 1540 m/s as the speed of sound and at a corrected speed of sound for breast tissue. An offline

*Artifacts; Breast Diseases – Classification; Breast Diseases – Diagnosis; Continuing (Credit); Education; Equipment and Supplies; Female; Funding Source; Human; Humans; Image Enhancement/*methods; Mammary/*methods; Middle Aged; Observer Variation; Quality of Health Care; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Ultrasonography; Ultrasonography – Methods

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